had a dream that norns could be everywhere. accessed from the internet. a crowdsourced music box.
not sure why this would be useful, but tried to make it nonetheless.
currently my norns is offline. anyone can access my norns here (for limited time probably): https://norns.online/#infinitedigits_music click on the screen for the twitch stream.
how does it work? lots of hacks. but really: norns is running a service that connects to a relay that talks to a webpage. screenshots are sent to the webpage and input commands are received.
yeah. everyone is controlling my norns simultaneously. one day there cuold be a script that is good for “crowdsourcing”.
in general, i would say no but i am not as paranoid as some.
how it works right now is that anyone with your address (e.g. https://norns.online/#<youraddress>) can access your norns. right now they only have control of all the inputs but the data is sanitized before execution so they can’t execute arbitrary lua code (like to do rm -rf /). however, people can use the inputs to go into the menu and reset stuff.
an improved version might be to make menu diving optional so you can keep crowds stuck in a particular app without access to the system stuff.
right now its a bit hack to use this and it requires ssh. i believe i can make it a norns app to make it really easy to use for anyone. to gauge interest:
You’re on fire! Can’t wait to see what you cook up next.
